The analysis conducted for the GAR 2013 takes advantage of these homogeneous databases o provide valuable insights about the occurrence and impact of disasters of all scales in 56 countries and two Indian states, taking as itsdata universe 38 datasets containing originally almost half a million records. The original dataset was filtered to leave only records related to physical hazards (weather related and geological) and those compliant with several quality requirements, leaving a total of 272,000 records for analysis.